Emily & the Thorne Pond 5

After yesterday’s two letters, I am serving up a palate cleanser. And what better way than with Emily exercising two of her passions, swimming and retrieving, and the calm response of the Canada geese?

These five geese decided to summer on Thorne Pond. That is unusual for our area. By this point of the year, Canada geese are long gone. But they’re sticking around for some good reason they’ve yet to disclose to me—not that they have to.

Is it my imagination, or do the geese follow us on the 3/4-mile loop around the water’s edge? They are never far and even draw nearer most evenings.

The Thorne Pond 5 are so used to us that Emily’s splashes are the only noises when she rushes into the water. The birds, capable of a rousing cacophony, watch silently and without concern.

This is the kind of relationship with other beings we have worked on since Samwise and Emily arrived. It was not easy in those initial months since both came with a primal prey drive. But gosh, how these kind souls have g…